[Report 1936] / Medical Officer of Health, Bournemouth County Borough.

  • Bournemouth (England). County Borough Council. nb2004301338.
Date:
1936
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Credit: [Report 1936] / Medical Officer of Health, Bournemouth County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    NOTIFIABLE DISEASES (OTHER THAN TUBER- CULOSIS) DURING THE YEAR 1936. Disease. Total Cases Notified. Total Cases Admitted to Hospital. Total Deaths. Smallpox — — Scarlet Fever... 78 54 — Diphtheria 38 37 2 Enteric Fever (including Paraty- phoid) 289 233 31 Puerperal Fever 2 1* 1 Puerperal Pyrexia 4 3* 1 Pneumonia 36 5* 9 Erysipelas 22 6 (1*) — Ophthalmia Neonatorum 4 1* — Encephalitis Lethargica 2 1* 2 Polio-myelitis 1 1 — Dysentery — — — tChicken-pox 84 — — Cerebo-Spinal Meningitis 2 1 1 *General Hospital. I Note.—Chicken-pox ceased to be notifiable on 1st February, 1936. In addition to the 284 cases associated with the epidemic there were five other notifications of Enteric. Two were reported in Januar}^ both being Typhoid. One of these was a nurse who had been in attendance on the second case, a man who was by occupation a hawker, living on the outskirts of Bournemouth and Poole. The habits of this family were nomadic and probably insanitary so that when the summer outbreak occurred the man was considered as a possible cause but no connection could be traced. In July there were two notifications of Para-typhoid B. The patients had recently come from abroad and were not well when they landed. The fifth case was also one of Para-typhoid B notified in October. The source of infection was not traced. imiUNISATION AGAINST DIPHTHERIA. Dr. Pedle^^ continues to devote two sessions weekly to this work. He also undertakes the immunisation of the inmates at the Victoria Home for Crippled Children.